There is also this double reality, where there seems to be some pretending that all the progress in every front would not be predicated by the developement of the tech. And that the developement would be even a bit predictable. Example, removal of relays:
Well, it’s not there yet.
And on the Roadmap you see the tag “Small”.
And given the benefits:
You create an expectation, that it’s a great improvement and probably there soon. Then I see this in LibP2P Github:
Roland has been working with many things, not only relay removal, so I am not sure, but I sincerely hope that new release is not needed for relay removal to happen.
And then when there was this release of the “Roadmap”, there is David speaking some very speculative stuff of possible hyper-solutions in some unclear point of time.
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So, for me it seems that we are right back on the terrain, where there is just this uncertain technical developement, like it used to be. But on top of that there are some talks of timeframes, that can not be trusted at all. Nevertheless they create expectations, that are never met. And never meeting them is never talked about at all.
Drives me nuts. 